ECE Students: EECS 413 - Monolithic Amplifier Circuits Design Contest

EECS 413: Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, a major design course taken by undergraduate students as well as graduate students, includes a contest and cash prize for the best designs in the class. This popular course taught by Prof. Michael Flynn offers an introduction to CMOS analog and mixed signal design.

ECE Team Members:David Chen, Joseph Parent and Aaron Rocca (all EE undergraduate students) designed an amplifier that accepts two currents as inputs and outputs a voltage proportional to the difference in input currents. The gain is set externally, allowing for a large range of input currents.

ECE Team Members:Zeshan Ahmad, Khaled Al-Ashmouny and Kuo-Ken Huang (all EE graduate students) designed an energy efficient low-noise nano-power amplifier that will enable the recording of thousands of simultaneous neural activities without heating or damaging brain tissue. Their design will also allow neuroscientists to shrink the size of the probes while multiplying their number, thereby safely increasing the amount of information they can gain.

First Place ($1,000 Prize), 2007
"Novel 1μW Temperature Sensor"

ECE Team Members:Jonathan Brown, Francine Shammami and John DeBusscher designed sensor with a device output that is an oscillation frequency which varies linearly with temperature. Key innovations in this work ensure very low power consumption and independence from power supply voltage.